Original Languages and Biblical Interpretation

Psst…

Don’t anyone tell Jim West, but every time he opines on the necessity of biblical languages for proper biblical study, I always think, “Why does the New Testament quote the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, then?”

I also wonder how he reconciles this with the history of Baptists in America, whose early ministers tended to be non- university -trained types who farmed and raised cattle like the members of their congregations. Which I gather raised more than a few eyebrows among the other denominations that stressed education for ministers, to say nothing of what the Roman Catholic clergy must have thought!